Meet your Freaky Friday Sloggers! Stop by tomorrow and cheer or heckle; they’ll be posting between 8 am and 6 pm (PST).

CALLIE

Callie is a 26-year -old Washington native who grew up on the sleepy streets of Olympia. She graduated from UW in 2004 with a BA in Latin American studies and immediately put it to (not at all) applicable use as an assistant in a life insurance office for the past four years. As of last week, she can no longer call herself gainfully employed and plans to take off for Europe in November. Callie is a constant Slog lurker and occasional commenter who worries that she will not have an easy time producing content to Slog about, as she currently gets pretty much all of her useful information from Slog. She is a liberal, pro-choice, pro LGBT rights, booze-slugging Yahtzee and local-music enthusiast with a predilection for acting like a dirty old man. If anyone wants to employ her after she returns stateside in December she can be found on Slog calling Mr. Poe names, exalting Fnarf, and ignoring Mudede’s posts.

GURLDOGGIE

Gurldoggie lives in the Ravenna neighborhood with a gorgeous woman, four chickens, and various cats. A dedicated biker, doper, and renter.

SDA in SEA

SDA is an openly gay man in his mid 40s. He was born outside the U.S., but lived in America most of his life. SDA enlisted in the military right after high school and served 8 years. A little over 20 years ago, he got his U.S. Citizenship, came out of the closet, moved to Seattle, finished college, and found a boyfriend—all within a few of years. (The two have been together ever since.) He’s now self-employed, working odd and random hours, which is why he has the freedom to spend so much time being a Slog nerd.

COMTE

Besides regularly shooting his mouth of on the Slog, Comte is a 22-year veteran of the Seattle theatre [his spelling] scene, having worked as an actor, director, technician—even a couple of stints as a playwright—at most of the smaller, and a few of the larger, companies around town. Currently, he is the membership director for the Seattle local of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), and is also the facilities manager and communications coordinator for Annex Theatre, where he’s been a Company member since 1989. Find Comte online here.

KATELYN

Katelyn is a slightly poverty-stricken food geek in love with the internet and local hiphop. She doesn’t make her bed even though her bedroom is right off the kitchen and everyone can see the mess. Katelyn’s backyard is home to two strapping kiwi trees; also, some stray cats prowl there. She currently labors as a massage therapist for an athletic club downtown. In her not-so-distant past, Katelyn has hawked corporate bagels on Broadway, written thousands of parking tickets at Bellevue Square, and dropped out of a major in theology. She will write for truffle fries or wine.

ORIGINAL ANDREW

Age: 33. Yes, there is life after 29, and Capitol Hill
isn’t the least bit like Logan’s Run, not that you’d
know that by looking at the covers of a certain alt
weekly (ahem).

Location: Seattle, Washington (down the rabbit hole).

Occupation: Financial Services.

Sex: Your place or mine?

Education: B.A., Psychology, M.M.P., Master of Melrose
Place.

Turn-ons: Surfing, backgammon and men who aren’t
afraid to cry.

Online addictions: Wonkette, Huffington Post, The
Onion, and Slog.

IRL: Working, working out, spending time with friends
and family, seducing Billy and trying to get him to
ditch that goody two-shoes, Allison. I’ve been reading
The Stranger since (gulp) 1995 when it took my sweet,
sweet innocence; Lynyrd Skynyrd was playing on the
radio, of course.

ORIGINAL MONIQUE

Monique is a 25-year-old female who grew up in the suburbs around Seattle, one day dreaming she’d live the high life on Capitol Hill. With that dream achieved, she now spends most of her time drinking and going to shows. She is a corporate zombie during the day, because unfortunately we can’t all be rock stars. She enjoys reading up on politics, economics, and music. The presidential race is like her Olympics and she is a news junkie, checking websites and blogs all day, obsessing over Slog, and wishing she could write more like Ambrose Bierce.

AMELIA

Amelia is 17 and spends her days attending community college and weekends working at a little hotel in La Conner. She’s a blond, liberal, agnostic Virgo—but you wouldn’t know that from her meaningless commentary on Slog. When she grows up (which she honestly hopes is NEVER), she wants to be either a columnist or a runway model who lives a loft in Seattle.

BOOMER IN NYC

Michael Beaumier is the author of I Know You’re Out There, a comedic memoir of his years working in the newspaper personals. His writings have appeared in various publications including Gentleman’s Quarterly, and he has made appearances and is a contributor on This American Life. After 15 years in Chicago, he now makes his home in Manhattan. His next book will be published by Simon & Schuster in the autumn of 2008.